Unlike Princess Máxima, two thirds of all Dutch people in the Netherlands and abroad think that a Dutch identity does exist. More than half of them are also proud to call themselves Dutch. (more…) More >

Campaigners fighting to save a diseased tree in Amsterdam that was fondly described by Anne Frank in her diary about life in hiding under Nazi occupation made a last bid Thursday to stop it being felled. (more…) More >

At last somebody is talking sense about immigration and assimilation. Integration minister Ella Vogelaar has set out plans to bridge the cultural gap between the native Dutch and the immigrant population. (more…) More >

Germany is unjustly withholding money from Dutch Holocaust survivors, an umbrella group for Dutch Jews told Haaretz. Yesterday, on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the group's leaders presented Germany with a petition protesting "injustice to 2,000 Dutch survivors." (more…) More >

Former Dutch star and current television analyst Ruud Gullit was named coach of the Los Angeles Galaxy. Gullit is expected to take charge of the Galaxy ahead of its trip to Australia and New Zealand later this month. (more…) More >

It now seems fairly likely that we will never officially get to the bottom of what caused the mystery outbreak of headaches, dizziness and nausea among people who visited a pet shop in Hoogeveen. (more…) More >

How incredibly patronising. The number of over-65s landing in court on criminal charges ranging from arson and murder to drug dealing and shoplifting has rocketed and the response from the authorities is one of hysteria and a complete misreading of the situation. (more…) More >

Sometimes, you just have to ask if police chiefs actually live in the real world. At the beginning of this week, the country's most senior officers announced a crack-down on bicycle lamps which break the law. (more…) More >

The law is an ass, or rather the people that administer the law can sometimes be asses. This certainly applies to the Dutch legal system which was today due to release six suspects from custody because the judge who put them there technically wasn’t yet a judge. (more…) More >

AMSTERDAM - NATO defence ministers seem to have done just enough with meagre offers of additional troops to convince the Dutch to carry on the fight in southern Afghanistan, a former military commander said Friday. Retired Dutch Maj.-Gen Frank van Kappen's observation appeared supported by remarks from a senior member of the ruling party in the Netherlands. (more…) More >

Dutch lawmakers who visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison this week said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat. The lawmakers said that Tom Lantos, chairman of the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, told them that "Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay." (more…) More >

Congratulations are due to the crew of the Nuna4, the solar-powered car which nipped across Australia in 33 hours 17 minutes and crossed the finishing line in the World Solar Challenge first for the fourth year in a row. (more…) More >

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